Aw, my favorite member from the High Kick 3 crew Lee Jong-seok (my favorite character, at least; I think Park Ha-sun wins for favorite cast member overall) has been cast in his next project, which will be a short Drama Special episode called When I Was Prettiest.

My immediate response is to make a quip about flower boys and winking at the audience, but reading on I see it’s about a girl who’s sick (the one who remembers feeling pretty, I presume) and now I feel bad. Hey, is it my fault for thinking the obvious thing?

Looks like this’ll be set at university (I love campus stories), with Lee Jong-seok playing a campus heartthrob and engineering major who captures the fancies of all the girls. When his girlfriend falls ill, he nurses her… but meets a new girl, and falls in love.

Billed as a coming of age story, I anticipate that it’ll focus on the thoughtful and poignant moments, as many Drama Specials do. Often only one episode (some stretch for multiple episodes), the series likes to tell small stories that focus on the human moments, which can be quite moving despite the short running time. So while the conflict sounds big and dramatic, I expect it’ll be a quieter story without any makjang twists.

(The description, however, totally did make me think of the sweeping, angsty campus melo-love-triangle music video (heh) starring Lee Jun-ki as the guy who falls for a new girl while being indebted to the old one. I love how MVs can make anything epic. If you care to watch the “Grace” MV trio, here are Part 1, 2, and 3. You have to watch till the third to make sense of it all.)

Okay, now I want a kdrama series about an ageing ex flower boy relegated to the D-list. It would be Best Love comedy or embarrassment meets Picture of Dorian Gray psychodrama meets Tithonus tragedy and star Kim Seung Woo as aged flower boy with dimply Joo Won as his younger self whom he is insanely jealous of.

OMG GRACE. Brings back memories I tell ya, always made me think it was some drama I was missing when it turned out to be just a music video. But on that subject: Timeless by Xiah Junsu and Jang Ri In anyone? Ah gotta love korean entertainment and their epic sweeping drama like music videos. But grace has always been a favourite, nice to know it made an impact on you as well jb haha

I think these Drama Specials are some of the best stuff on TV! In the past two years of watching, have only seen three that I did not like due to the story line.

Perhaps these wonderfully-done dramas are the reason I lose patience with the multi-episode dramas that catch my interest in the first two episodes, only to wander aimlessly for 17 episodes until the (foregone) conclusion?